If it doesn't cross state lines, it doesn't consitute Interstate Commerce, and therefore the Federal Government doesn't actually HAVE authority on the subject per the 10th Amendment.
Try growing wheat on your land to be used only on that land and see what the fedgov says about interstate commerce.
This represents an efficient working of our federal government to you? Good thing we got rid of that guy hosting plans for a worthless plastic gun instead of following up on warnings about a few possible terrorists from Chechnya.
This is the State Department, not the FBI. Although, if these plastic blueprints hadn't been up on the internet, the peaceful Libyan protest of a video might never have turned violent. And with the proper spin, >80 of Americans will believe that.
You would call the cops and let the professionals deal with your killer.
For the slow readers in the audience, this means the cops arrive thirteen minutes after you get killed. Even if they wanted to save you, most of the time they can't.
Yeah, well; nothing beats "examine butterfly; sell butterfly". It works because the examine butterfly implicitly takes the butterfly out of the goblet for the rest of the command string (so that the examine functions), but you can sell it in the same command string. The butterfly's value doubles every time it escapes from the display case, but you have to avoid the overflow because they used a signed int for zorkmids.
" Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices."
ie "What I'm planning to do isn't tyranny, it's a simple proctology exam."
"Because what they suggest is that our brave, and creative, and unique experiment in self-rule is somehow just a sham with which we can't be trusted."
No, it's a great but fragile thing that we all need to protect from tyrants so that it never ceases to be self-rule. Those barriers that "gum up the works" are a good thing because they help prevent power hungry dill-holes from trampling over everyone else.
There's essentially no skill involved in most games, so you don't even get to feel good for having played well. All there is is variable schedule reinforcement, and blinking lights.
Chutes and Ladders for adults. With booze and pretty women.
I would be sortof surprised if indeed I found only @facebook.com addresses in there, but if so, it's a real dick move by FB.
If it shows only the ones people chose to reveal, then those won't show up. About a couple years ago, FB quietly hid everyone's chosen email and replaced the listed emails with their FB ones.
Yep, and FB has done work to make sure that the monopoly is more secure; they removed the "phone book" feature that used to list your friends contact info, and they changed everyone's listed email to a username@facebook.com email address. Good luck contacting all your old friends you've reunited with via FB unless you manually ask all of them for contact info.
Yes, but.. A bubble gun. It's a battery powered bubble maker that bears slight resemblance to a bulbous rainbow colored gun. And the "threat" was an obvious invitation to play.
i have given up: when a dog damned 5 year old kindergarten kid talking about her HELLO KITTY BUBBLE SQUIRT GUN at the school bus stop is given a 10 day suspension and charged with "TERRORIST THREATS", there is no sane place left to go to...
there is no need to gather further data: the democracy is over, the authoritarians have won, we're all borked...
[The Principal] cut the suspension down to two days while changing the categorization of the incident from "terroristic threat" to "threat to harm others."
harm others with a bubble gun? This wasn't a Joker-brand poison-gas-bubble gun. And the bubble gun wasn't even on school property, where the invitation to play with bubbles was made.
are you aware of thoughtcrime, and that we don't do that in the USA?
Are you aware that a threat of bodily harm, especially a threat of death, is not a thoughtcrime, but an action for which the perpetrator can be judged guilty and punished? Threatening with intention to gain is extortion, and threatening with present physical capability to carry out the threat (saying "I'm going to stab you to death" while a knife is within close vicinity) is assault.
I never expect a teenager to be so specific when expressing anger. "You're dead" and "I'm'a kill you" are tame generic statements compared to "I'm going to stab you to death". Once a plan is mentioned, you know they've thought critically about it and their statement indicates they've decided on that course of action.
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I believe I'll vote for a calico!
If it doesn't cross state lines, it doesn't consitute Interstate Commerce, and therefore the Federal Government doesn't actually HAVE authority on the subject per the 10th Amendment.
Try growing wheat on your land to be used only on that land and see what the fedgov says about interstate commerce.
LiberatorPlasticGunBlueprints has been removed due to use of original research.
This represents an efficient working of our federal government to you? Good thing we got rid of that guy hosting plans for a worthless plastic gun instead of following up on warnings about a few possible terrorists from Chechnya.
This is the State Department, not the FBI. Although, if these plastic blueprints hadn't been up on the internet, the peaceful Libyan protest of a video might never have turned violent. And with the proper spin, >80 of Americans will believe that.
Maybe there's a good market there for importing beef (gotta be safer than that British stuff).
I say thee neigh.
Nope, others have made submissions about this very topic (banned by State Department actually):
http://slashdot.org/submission/2653097/liberator-3d-printed-gun-blueprints-removed-by-us-state-department
http://slashdot.org/submission/2653039/state-dept-demands-takedown-of-3d-printed-gun-file-under-export-control-laws
You would call the cops and let the professionals deal with your killer.
For the slow readers in the audience, this means the cops arrive thirteen minutes after you get killed. Even if they wanted to save you, most of the time they can't.
Yeah, well; nothing beats "examine butterfly; sell butterfly".
It works because the examine butterfly implicitly takes the butterfly out of the goblet for the rest of the command string (so that the examine functions), but you can sell it in the same command string. The butterfly's value doubles every time it escapes from the display case, but you have to avoid the overflow because they used a signed int for zorkmids.
Yes. I hate games where gold is weightless. How does someone carry around that much gold?
That way, people will know I'm a Jedi who can deal with a missing hand or two.
" Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices."
ie "What I'm planning to do isn't tyranny, it's a simple proctology exam."
"Because what they suggest is that our brave, and creative, and unique experiment in self-rule is somehow just a sham with which we can't be trusted."
No, it's a great but fragile thing that we all need to protect from tyrants so that it never ceases to be self-rule. Those barriers that "gum up the works" are a good thing because they help prevent power hungry dill-holes from trampling over everyone else.
Every American should buy a 3D printer.
There's essentially no skill involved in most games, so you don't even get to feel good for having played well. All there is is variable schedule reinforcement, and blinking lights.
Chutes and Ladders for adults. With booze and pretty women.
Those newlines are there for a reason.
They would have been there, but someone couldn't be bothered to figure out what the new command for unix2dos was.
Creative cloud user: when Adobe goes belly up or decides to just end creative cloud, no more creativ cloud.
I would be sortof surprised if indeed I found only @facebook.com addresses in there, but if so, it's a real dick move by FB.
If it shows only the ones people chose to reveal, then those won't show up. About a couple years ago, FB quietly hid everyone's chosen email and replaced the listed emails with their FB ones.
They have a monopoly on your friends.
Yep, and FB has done work to make sure that the monopoly is more secure; they removed the "phone book" feature that used to list your friends contact info, and they changed everyone's listed email to a username@facebook.com email address. Good luck contacting all your old friends you've reunited with via FB unless you manually ask all of them for contact info.
"Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV!" -F.A.R.T.
Because socialists have this nasty habit of killing LOTS of people.
And usually the educated people go first.
needs an activation system that doesn't make things difficult for its legal customers Ever.
FTFY
I guess Star Wars games had to suck eventually.
Yes, but.. A bubble gun. It's a battery powered bubble maker that bears slight resemblance to a bulbous rainbow colored gun. And the "threat" was an obvious invitation to play.
i have given up: when a dog damned 5 year old kindergarten kid talking about her HELLO KITTY BUBBLE SQUIRT GUN at the school bus stop is given a 10 day suspension and charged with "TERRORIST THREATS", there is no sane place left to go to...
there is no need to gather further data: the democracy is over, the authoritarians have won, we're all borked...
Wow, I thought you made it up, but I googled just in case: http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/21/us/pennsylvania-girl-suspended
[The Principal] cut the suspension down to two days while changing the categorization of the incident from "terroristic threat" to "threat to harm others."
harm others with a bubble gun? This wasn't a Joker-brand poison-gas-bubble gun. And the bubble gun wasn't even on school property, where the invitation to play with bubbles was made.
are you aware of thoughtcrime, and that we don't do that in the USA?
Are you aware that a threat of bodily harm, especially a threat of death, is not a thoughtcrime, but an action for which the perpetrator can be judged guilty and punished? Threatening with intention to gain is extortion, and threatening with present physical capability to carry out the threat (saying "I'm going to stab you to death" while a knife is within close vicinity) is assault.
I never expect a teenager to be so specific when expressing anger. "You're dead" and "I'm'a kill you" are tame generic statements compared to "I'm going to stab you to death". Once a plan is mentioned, you know they've thought critically about it and their statement indicates they've decided on that course of action.